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For a man with alot if experience, i just watched a video where he chops a flex into the plaster, for an electric heater, rather than using the flex out of a switched fused spur... I mean I wouldn't have the guts to put my work online to be picked over but come on!!
 
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I think it's because he has all that experience that he takes short cuts... he knows what he can get away with. And don't forget, his patch is East London... parking will be horrendous with a constant risk of theft. If that was me, I'd wanna be in and out as quickly as possible !
 
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As an aside, this is the reason i don't instantly berate DIYers, short courses or anything like that. You get corner cutters and bodgers everywhere.

I'll always remember going to a house wired in the 60's by an old boy with no qualifications, just a good base knowledge and plenty of Readers Digest guides. It was his own house and as such, he was invested in making it top quality- and honestly- it belonged in an art gallery. Absolute work of art, even the slip tubing in the garage. Everything was neat as .

Similarly today, I'm about to go and tidy up a connection made by a retired electrician of 45 years who was working maintenance here before he fully retired - choc block connecting some RFC singles together, not encased I'm anything and just lobbed above the suspended ceiling grid.
 
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lozarus said:
As an aside, this is the reason i don't instantly berate DIYers, short courses or anything like that. You get corner cutters and bodgers everywhere.

I'll always remember going to a house wired in the 60's by an old boy with no qualifications, just a good base knowledge and plenty of Readers Digest guides. It was his own house and as such, he was invested in making it top quality- and honestly- it belonged in an art gallery. Absolute work of art, even the slip tubing in the garage. Everything was neat as .

Similarly today, I'm about to go and tidy up a connection made by a retired electrician of 45 years who was working maintenance here before he fully retired - choc block connecting some RFC singles together, not encased I'm anything and just lobbed above the suspended ceiling grid.
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Totally agree. I've always said it's not time served that makes your work good - if you care about good work you'll find out how it's done and make it good. It's people who can't be arsed or who take shortcuts who do bad work irrespective of their qualifications.

It's not like short courses are teaching people to shove cables into back boxes without grommets or not using earth sleeving, those who don't do it simply don't do it because they are tight and lazy and produce the absolute minimum standards of work. That's about the person not the training imo.
 
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THIS>

Some of the roughest sparks I have had the displeasure to work with are scam registered and time served

They cut corners and used substandard work just to make an extra few quid on the job

I know scam registered sparks who don't even bother certifying / notifying 'cash' jobs etc

Buts lets not go there on this thread...
 
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I take it all with a pinch of salt, it'll all be editted and inevitably missing bits that has people amrchair sparking "why did he do this etc etc", I like that he tries to educate (in a fashion) clients as to why he does things a certain way but, as with every other spark on socials (media, not housing) there is always something to take away; good or bad. Either watch them as an example/good practices to follow or which pitfalls to avoid.
 
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I dunno why I just watched his latest, its an attempt at an advert for schneider, but if you're going to title a video, "how to change a consumer unit" but spend more time talking about the nice stickers, and making an absolute meal of screwing two bits of wood together, and then fail to mention safe isolation, torque settings or testing of any kind, I feel like you've left yourself open to some criticism.
 
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I would never agree to being billed on the hr or any time, give me a price.!
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How to you know how to price a job when customer rings you at 9.30pm saying 'My electrics keep tripping and all my lights and sockets are off....'

It could be 15mins to just to pop round and reset their rcd or 4 - 5 hours trying to work out what exactly keeps banging out the rcd

Fault diagnostics is nearly always on the hour or part hour shirley ?
 
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How to you know how to price a job when customer rings you at 9.30pm saying 'My electrics keep tripping and all my lights and sockets are off....'

It could be 15mins to just to pop round and reset their rcd or 4 - 5 hours trying to work out what exactly keeps banging out the rcd

Fault diagnostics is nearly always on the hour or part hour shirley ?
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True DD true, but just say £100 an hr x7 = £700 My point is some sparks are quick and good, on the other hand you could get some old plodder take twice as long hence twice the money.

Ok maybe ask what their day rate is before starting, and if somebody quoted me £700 bye, no sparky is charging out that amount of money up here.
 
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7029 dave said:
True DD true, but just say £100 an hr x7 = £700 My point is some sparks are quick and good, on the other hand you could get some old plodder take twice as long hence twice the money.

Ok maybe ask what their day rate is before starting, and if somebody quoted me £700 bye, no sparky is charging out that amount of money up here.
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Delroy is in London and much like my area of North Surrey his 'rate' is about standard £100-150 per hour

He seems pretty genuine and if the job takes him 4 hours then it takes him 4 hours , I know some who would string it out for a full day and slap the customer with a £900 bill

But Del seems very genuine and if can be in and out quickly then he only charges for exactly how long it took , if that makes sense
 
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How to you know how to price a job when customer rings you at 9.30pm saying 'My electrics keep tripping and all my lights and sockets are off....'

It could be 15mins to just to pop round and reset their rcd or 4 - 5 hours trying to work out what exactly keeps banging out the rcd

Fault diagnostics is nearly always on the hour or part hour shirley ?Didn't know your name was "Shirley", Dusty when did this happen
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